Most of us live our whole lives without having an adventure to call our own.

Even beyond sexuality, I'm generally interested in identity.

It was an amazing performer. Very temperamental, it spent a lot of time in its trailer.

You can sit next to somebody on the underground, and you can look at them quite intensely, but you can never, ever know what they're wearing under their clothes.

We [ with Ewan McGregor] decided exactly what we would do at every moment, what the texture would be.

To be honest the work that a producer does is work that I've done for most of my working life. It's work that I started to do, for example, when I worked with Sally Potter on Orlando. We developed it together over five years.

I would say, and this sounds like a rather immodest thing to say, but the truth is it's probably the most amazing thing of all, it's pretty much exactly what I thought we were going to make, what I hoped we'd make.